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Basically this is going to be the team until the Iginla era is finished. Whether that's through trade or retirement has yet to be seen. I love Jarome Iginla, and appreciate that he's been a soldier and is a great human being. So what I'm about to say sounds terrible, and kind of feels terrible to type it, but he's like this ominous cloud hanging over the Flames at this point. Decisions are all made through the lens of succeeding while he's here, and it's just not going to happen. As a result this is what we're left with. Who knows how many more years this goes on.

Maybe some miracle happens and they stop making decisions based on Iginla and things change, but I doubt it. It's too bad the drafting and development was so piss poor for the last 20 years so we didn't have to be stuck in the "Iginla is the man and everything revolves around him" mindset that is just killing us for the last 5 years.